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A Light Year is a measure of distance. If a star is 61 light years away, then it would take light (or radio waves, which travel at the speed of light) 61 years to get there.

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It means that the light observed from the star today took 61 years to travel from the star to Earth. The distance light travels in one year is roughly 5.88 trillion miles.

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Q: If a star is 61 lightyears what does that mean?
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